Word: research
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...instructors of the University: 1. An elementary course in Cambridge, by Professor Shaler and assistants. 2. A course in field work in Cambridge, Southern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Meriden, Conn, by Professor Shaler and Mr. J. B. Woodworth. 3. A course in advanced field work, in field research and professional methods, by Professors Shaler and Wolff. The course will cover parts of New England, Southeastern New York, Southern Virginia and Northern New Jersey. A thesis will contain the result of the work done by each student...
...movement which puts the special advantages of the various departments of the University at the service of the Graduate School, for purposes of advanced study or research, necessarily widens the scope of the School's usefulness. It is quite conceivable that study in some of the professional schools may be carried on in purely scientific lines without reference to any practical application, professionally, in after life. Now the purpose of the Graduate School being to offer opportunities for advanced work and to give credit for such work without any limitation of its field other than the actual number of fields...
Resolved, That in all official publications hereafter issued by or under authority of the trustees, all the departments of instruction and research maintained and managed by this corporation may, for convenience, be designated collectively as "Columbia University in the City of New York," or "The University," and the School of Arts, as the same is now known and described, may hereafter be designated as "Columbia College," or "The College...
...development in administration which has been its own and to which its present important position in the University is largely due. Under that administration the large resources of the University have been put to more extensive and systematic use in the interests of advanced study and research, and the cause of higher education throughout the country has been steadily advanced...
...should it be forgotten that in the Faculty, in the important committees, and before the public, he has ever been the able and enthusiastic champion of graduate study and the steadfast defender of research; and this research, with characteristic impartiality, he has encouraged equally in all branches of knowledge...